Viewing the Current Export Widths for a Session - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

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VantageCloud
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Lake
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February 2025
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You can use HELP SESSION to view the current export widths for the session. Based on the rule set shown in Working with Export Widths, and an EXPECTED user default export width, the request returns output similar to the following:

HELP SESSION ;
User Name SPEC2
Account Name DBC
Logon Date 02/08/11
Logon Time 10:58:56
Current DataBase DBC
Collation UTF8
Character Set UTF8
Current DateForm IntegerDate
Session Time Zone -08:00
Default Character Type LATIN
Export Latin 2
Export Unicode 3
Export Unicode Adjust 0
Export KanjiSJIS 1
Export Graphic 3
Export Width Rules 2313
...

where:

Value Description
Export Latin 2 Reports the export width value for each server character data type for the session character set (UTF8).
A 0 value means that character conversion between server and client character sets is not possible, for example, from Graphic (double-byte) to ASCII (single-byte).
Export Unicode 3
Export Unicode Adjust 0
Export KanjiSJIS 1
Export Graphic 3
Export Width Rules 2313 The export width values for converting the session character set to Latin, Unicode, KanjiSJIS, and Graphic.